I recently got a new desktop, and I’ve been running into a problem that I used to have on my laptop (which had 11.3). When I first tried out openSUSE, shutting down / restarting my laptop would produce a very loud, obnoxious sound that I narrowed down to being the system halt noise. I disabled it by going into alsamixer and muting “PC Beep.”
When I built my new desktop, I put 11.3 on it, and have since upgraded to 11.4. The halt sound didn’t play when I first installed 11.3, so I’m not sure if upgrading is what caused this, but now the halt sound plays when I shut down or restart (although thankfully, it’s not nearly as obnoxious as the one on my laptop).
alsamixer doesn’t display an option for PC Beep, although I did find an option in YaST’s sysconfig that lets you specify halt noise; unfortunately, it seems to be ignoring this option because it’s set to “no”.
I’ve also been having some problems with my sound driver, but I don’t think the two are related because the halt noise uses a small speaker inside the computer itself, although I could be wrong.
I had the same issue with 11.4 on a brand new HP Dv6. Only when I shut down would I get this loud annoying sound and buzz. I was not sure what that was.
I will be watching this post for any aid we can get. I since removed 11.4 and plan on installing it again this weekend. I will post back if happens again on the next try.
> alsamixer doesn’t display an option for PC Beep, although I did find an
> option in YaST’s sysconfig that lets you specify halt noise;
> unfortunately, it seems to be ignoring this option because it’s set to
> “no”.
You might be confusing the system halt “beep” with the gnome/kde exit
sound. The halt beep is about a second before it power off completely, and
it is controlled in sysconfig.
You can check by changing to runlevel 3, then halting.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
I’m pretty sure it’s the halt beep, since it comes out of the computer and not my speakers, but I’m at work right now and can’t check it until I get back home.
I’ve confirmed that it’s not a logoff sound. I boot into runlevel 3 and then used /sbin/shutdown -r now to reboot; the noise beeps right after sending the command.
On 2011-03-19 22:36, kog13 wrote:
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> I’ve confirmed that it’s not a logoff sound. I boot into runlevel 3 and
> then used /sbin/shutdown -r now to reboot; the noise beeps right after
> sending the command.
And in “/etc/sysconfig/shutdown” you have:
HALT_SOUND=“no”
exactly that way, and it still plays a beep?
Funny, I want mine to play a beep and it doesn’t play anything. It may be a
bug…
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
Well it is related because I had the notification plugin set to [Beep]… After changing to [Use sound theme] there is no annoying buzz. So maybe the problem is that there is no sound in the theme for system shutdown and the system bell is used?
On 2011-03-29 20:36, maciej kucharski wrote:
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> robin_listas;2313819 Wrote:
>> On 2011-03-28 21:36, maciej kucharski wrote:
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>>> The sound also occurs when new mail is received
>>> in Evolution.
>>
>> Not related.
>>
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> Well it is related because I had the notification plugin set to
> [Beep]… After changing to [Use sound theme] there is no annoying buzz.
> So maybe the problem is that there is no sound in the theme for system
> shutdown and the system bell is used?
You are talking about sounds inside gnome. He is talking of the halt script
shutdown noise, that plays outside gnome, in text mode.
Different, unrelated, things.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
I believe that we are all talking about system bell, beep or whatever desktop PC plays with PC speaker (or in my case laptop speakers.) I have that sound also when I press backspace in Chromium and there is nothing to delete.
On 2011-03-29 22:06, maciej kucharski wrote:
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> I believe that we are all talking about system bell, beep or whatever
> desktop PC plays with PC speaker (or in my case laptop speakers.) I have
> that sound also when I press backspace in Chromium and there is nothing
> to delete.
No, this thread is about the sytem bell played just a second or two before
the computer powers off.
Again, your question is not related to this thread.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
I just fixed it by adding “blacklist pcspkr” to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf. It doesn’t seem like this should be necessary, so IMO it should be disabled by default.
On 2011-06-28 10:36, kog13 wrote:
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> I just fixed it by adding “blacklist pcspkr” to
> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf. It doesn’t seem like this should be
> necessary, so IMO it should be disabled by default.
Certainly not.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
If you are still having this problem with 11.4, please try the following
Inside YaST Control Center, select the Sound properties. The Sound Configuration screen opens up. Select the sound card in the list and click the button Edit. Check the you have the parameter beep_mode in the options, if yes, select it, click Edit and set the value to 0. This will disable the HDA Digital PC Beep device when you reboot. And the loud beep at gnome shutdown should be gone as well.